Dullness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or quality of being dull, in any sense of that word.
  • noun. Synonyms Baldness, Heaviness, etc. (in style). See frigidity.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The quality of being slow to understand things.
  • noun. The quality of being uninteresting.
  • noun. The lack of visual brilliance.
  • noun. bluntness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. lack of sensibility
  • noun. without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
  • noun. a lack of visual brightness
  • noun. the quality of being slow to understand
  • noun. the quality of lacking interestingness
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    "And that the dullness of death is gay, compared to thy dullness—"
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